Saudi Arabia: Reveal Young Poet’s Whereabouts

(Beirut) – Kuwaiti authorities have arrested and extrajudicially deported a young dual Saudi-Qatari national. Nawaf al-Rasheed, 29, was deported to Saudi Arabia on May 12, 2018 during a visit to Kuwait and has been held incommunicado since. Saudi authorities should immediately reveal the whereabouts and circumstances of al-Rasheed’s detention.   Expand Nawaf al-Rasheed © Private   Using his Qatari passport, al-Rasheed, a poet and university student who lives in Qatar with his family, entered Kuwait lawfully on May 9 to attend a dinner in his honor organized by a prominent Kuwaiti poet,…

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